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Jing Li and Jialiang Zhang
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineering’s ENIAD Sets New World Record for Energy-efficient Supercomputing

When it comes to supercomputers, raw speed is no longer enough to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems. When the data being crunched … Read More ›

Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021
Chinedum Osuji delivers a kick in a taekwondo match at the 2004 Olympic Games
Academics

‘The Last Thing We Can Afford is to Be Pessimistic’ 

Earlier this summer, Chinedum Osuji, Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), began his term as department chair. … Read More ›

Posted on August 3, 2021August 4, 2021
Henry Daniell and Daeyeon Lee
Honors + Awards

Penn Dental Medicine, Penn Engineering Award First IDEA Prize to Advance Oral Health Care Innovation

Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, which teamed earlier this year to launch the Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry (CiPD), recently awarded the Center’s first IDEA … Read More ›

Posted on August 2, 2021
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Help Launch TILOS, a New NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Focused on Optimization

Through a $20 Million grant, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS. As one of TILOS’ … Read More ›

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021
Eugene Ko and Shu Yang
Honors + Awards

Assistive Technology for Infants with Cleft Palate Wins Inaugural Advancing Oral & Craniofacial Health Award

The Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry (CiPD), a collaboration between Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, has presented its inaugural Advancing Oral & Craniofacial … Read More ›

Posted on July 28, 2021July 29, 2021
A thin microbattery powering a green LED rests atop a dandelion.
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers’ Packaging-free Design Quadruples Microbatteries’ Energy Density

With wireless-enabled electronics becoming smaller and more ubiquitous, their designers must constantly find ways for batteries to store more power in less space. And because … Read More ›

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021
Jenny Jiang
Grants

Jenny Jiang Receives Immunotherapy Grant from Cancer Research Institute

Jenny Jiang, the Peter & Geri Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation in the department of Bioengineering, has received a Lloyd J. Old STAR Program grant … Read More ›

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
Carolina Nakada
Guest Posts

‘The Experience Beyond the Internship’

As a Brazilian international student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, I was looking for an opportunity through which I could explore another … Read More ›

Posted on July 22, 2021
Six maps of the US showing different population clusters and word clouds representing differences in how they talk about COVID vaccines.
Research + Innovation

Twitter, Communities and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

When it comes to studying why people believe the things they do, there aren’t many options beyond simply asking them. But with the rise of … Read More ›

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
Using eye tracking data from cyclists navigating through Center City, researchers from the lab of Megan Ryerson (above) describe how biometric data can be used to find potentially challenging and dangerous areas of urban infrastructure. (Image: Thomas Orgren)
Research + Innovation

A New Metric for Designing Safer Streets

A new study published in Accident Analysis & Prevention shows how biometric data can be used to find potentially challenging and dangerous areas of urban infrastructure … Read More ›

Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

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